HUNTSVILLE, AL. - Two people were taken to Huntsville Hospital following a hazardous materials incident at a home on Swancott Road.

Huntsville's Hazardous Materials Team was called shortly after 4 p.m. Monday after a man called 911 saying he had mixed some cleaning chemicals together and they had reacted unexpectedly.

Don Webster, Chief Operating officer for HEMSI says 62-year-old Matt Beddingfield was cleaning the home he shares with his 87-year-old mother at 3528 Swancott Road. The cleaners he mixed created a type of chlorine gas which is highly toxic. Matt was hospitalized for severe respiratory distress. Mary Beddingfield was taken to the hospital as evaluation and observation but was not in any immediate distress.

Common household chemicals when mixed together can created dangerous gases that can erupt violently and unexpectedly.